Re: Tablespace patch review

Tom Lane wrote:

>[ switching to pghackers for wider comment ]
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>Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
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>>By the way, I think that we should deny users the ability to create
>>tablespaces that begin with pg_. Also, the existing ones should be
>>pg_global and pg_default. That way, we have room to move if ever we
>>decide we want more system tablespaces. It also makes it easier to dump
>>non-system tablespaces.
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>Seems like a reasonable suggestion to me. Any objections?
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>BTW, another argument for this is that "default" is a reserved word.
>I'd already noticed in testing that CREATE TABLE ... TABLESPACE default
>doesn't work unless you double-quote "default". Calling it pg_default
>would avoid that annoyance.
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>

CREATE .... TABLESPACE DEFAULT with default as keyword seems reasonable
too, with default -> pg_default.

I could think of cases where temporary schemas should go to a different
tablespace, but AFAICS since these are created implicitely there's no
way to redirect them. Maybe an additional attribute in pg_database for a
default temp tablespace is desirable?

Regards,
Andreas